Wheel away to the films, music of a summer weekend in Long Beach

Assuming you do as you’re told, we’ve sent you to see movies at the beach, movies at the park, movies at Blair Field and movies at Sunnyside Cemetery. On Saturday, we’re all pedaling over to Pine Avenue to watch a movie in what its organizers are blithely calling “a vacant lot” on Pine Avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets.

The free event, from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, is Bicycle Drive-In, SAM’s (Summer And Music) third concert event of this rapidly aging summer, and it’s a first for the mighty seasonal series. As always, you get a big dose of live music, provided this time by SAM rookies Rosie Harlow & the Tall Tale Boys playing a mix of blues, folk and country, along with SAM vet Sam (no relation) Outlaw, who played at last year’s Dancing in the Streets bash.

By the end of Outlaw’s set, it’ll be dark enough to unreel filmmaker Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” (rated PG-13 if that’s a selling point).

Attendees are encouraged to cycle to the fest and avail themselves of bike valet service.

The SAMsters are going for a camping vibe, in keeping with the film’s flavor. There’ll be a costume contest, and food will be available for sale, or you can bring your own picnic. Beer? Yes, in a craft-beer garden presented by the Kress Market.

And, fellas, that’s not a vacant lot. It’s the site of the old Press Club, a hallowed bar that burned down one dreary evening in 1987, after which nothing was ever the same again.

To get all psyched up for the Bicycle Drive-In, we’re insisting you begin your Saturday with a platter of eggs, bacon and hash browns washed down with a gallon of hot coffee and then a jaunt to the sixth annual Press-Telegram Successful Aging Expo from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Long Beach Marriott, 4700 Airport Plaza Drive. You’ll get everything you need to successfully age: seminars, health screenings, raffles, exhibits and demonstrations. You miss this and we can’t promise what’ll become of you as time continues its relentless march.

There will also be a sizable batch of Press-Telegram writers, columnists and editors of all ages and genders at the P-T exhibit, including public editor Rich Archbold (all day), the successfully aged columnist you’re reading now (9 to 11 a.m.), city editor and columnist Melissa Evans (10 a.m. to noon), editorial writer Rachel Uranga (10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) and social scenestress Shirley Wild. You’ll be able to tell which one is us: We’re the only one who doesn’t dye his/her hair.

FRIDAY PLAYLIST: See, now those SAM people have got us all upset about the demise of our beloved Press Club. Only one thing that’ll get rid of the memory. Ten things, actually: